Quotes About Compassion

God doesn't make you a bigot. You're just a bigot.

But how can I give to God what is rightfully His? There is only one way; that is in service to others.

God's forgiveness extends to the worst offenders and to anyone who wishes to receive it-not because of who we are, but because of who He is.

The quality of mercy is not strained

Don't boast about your hardheartedness or refusal to shed tears. Instead, pray that God will give you a tender heart which will sympathize with others.

It's about sharing. You just give what you have to give wherever you go, and you let God handle the rest.

I find that we are all such sinners that it is better to leave the judging to God.

Whatever God does, the first outburst is always compassion.

Prayer reminds me it's not just about me. It's about all the people with whom I share this planet, and all of whom God has created, and all of whom he cares just as much about as he cares about me.

God has decreed that there be sick and poor in this world, but in the next it will be the other way around.

When I hear real faithful people - whether it's a real Christian, or a real Buddhist, or a real Muslim - I hear them use the language I use for a friend. So my metaphor for God is friend.

Great God, have pity on the wicked, for thou didst everything for the good, when thou madest them good!

I feel that the same God-force that is the mother and father of the Pope is also the mother and father of the loneliest wino on the planet.

In Jesus, the service of God and the service of the least of the brethren were one.

Righteousness and generosity are inseparable. The person whose heart longs for God also longs to give to others.

We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.

Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path.

How can we speak of right and justice if we take an innocent creature and shed its blood? How can we pray to God for mercy if we ourselves have no mercy? Nobel laureate in literature.

Our God is a forgiving God.

To believe in God for me is to feel that there is a God, not a dead one, or a stuffed one, who with irresistible force urges us towards more loving.

You must pray to God for forgiveness because I can give you none

The cross of Christ is the pledge to us that the deepest suffering may be the condition of the highest blessing; the sign, not of God's displeasure, but of His widest and most compassionate face.

God makes confetti out of our titles and accomplishments to celebrate the poor and the humble.

I cannot persuade myself that a beneficient and omnipotent God would have designedly created...that a cat should play with mice.